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THE STUDENTS COMEDIES (The Ozu Collection) (2 DVD)
Films by Yasujiro Ozu
Master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) has been revered for his unique and poetic style. This 2-disc set brings together all of his surviving early student-genre comedies for the first time
Disc 1: DAYS OF YOUTH (Wakaki Hi)1929, 99 minutes:Ozu's earliest surviving film follows Watanabe and Yamamoto as they unknowingly compete for the same girl.
I FLUNKED, BUT... (Rakudai Wa Shita Keredo)1930, 63 minutes:Takahashi finds a creative way to avoid doing his revision in this roguish comedy reminiscent of Harold Lloyd's The Freshman
Disc 2: THE LADY AND THE BEARD (Shukujo to Hige)1931, 72 minutes:Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity
WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Sieshun No Yume Ima Izuko)1932, 82 minutes:Ozu's long-term collaborator Kogo Noda scripts a subtle shift from light to dark as Hirano's carefree college life is marred by tragedy
Silent, Japanese intertitles with English subtitles, black and white
Special Features*
- I Graduated, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1929, 11 minutes): surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy about a recent graduate struggling to find a job
- Newly-commissioned scores for all films by Ed Hughes featuring The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey
- Ozu: Emotion and Poetry (2011, 20 minutes): Tony Rayns discusses Ozu's early work and influences
- Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays from Asian cinema experts Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby
* Special features are subject to change
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